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FlightAware Introduces PiAware for use with RTL-SDR and dump1090 on a...
FlightAware is an online service providing real time flight tracking. The flights are primarily tracked by volunteers who run ADS-B decoding hardware which is networked through the internet to the...
View ArticleMicheal Ossmann’s Software Defined Radio Course
Micheal Ossmann, creator of the HackRF is starting an online video course on the topic of software defined radio (SDR). His course will cover GNU Radio and will help you to learn the fundamentals of...
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Modifying a Laptop by Embedding an RTL-SDR and FunCube Dongle
Blogger “French Fry Cattaneo” wanted a portable laptop with built in SDR capability. To achieve this he opened up his Panasonic ToughBook CF-30 laptop and embedded an RTL-SDR FubCube dongle into the...
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BeagleBone Black Image File with RTL-SDR + GNU Radio + More
A ready to go Ubuntu 14.04 image file for the BeagleBone Black that contains various SDR related resources for the RTL-SDR and other SDRs like the HackRF has been released by KD0CQ. The BeagleBone...
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HackRF TX YouTube Videos
Since the HackRF was shipped to Kickstarter backers there have been a few new short videos uploaded to YouTube showing some transmit experiments that people have done. Here YouTube user CFSworks uses...
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Monitoring Military Aircraft with an RTL-SDR
The military air communications monitoring enthusiasts over at milaircomms.com have been using a system involving RTL-SDRs to monitor military air traffic through ADS-B. While military aircraft...
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New Experimental R820T RTL-SDR Driver that Tunes down to 13 MHz or Lower
Over on the Osmocom mailing list, Oliver Jowett an RTL-SDR experimenter has posted about his new experimental driver for the R820T RTL-SDR which extends the tunable range down to around 13 and up to...
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Hacking a PlayStation 3 using an RTL-SDR
There is a war going on between game console designers and the console modding community. Modders hack the console system so that they can jailbreak it and then install their own custom firmware while...
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SWSCAN – A Console Based Shortwave Broadcast Scanner for the RTL-SDR
Over on the Reddit discussion boards user gat3way has posted about his newly released software project called swscan. Swscan is a Linux console based program that can be used to scan and listen to...
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Experimenting with the R820T2 Tuner Chip
The R820T is the tuner chip that is used in the most popular RTL-SDR dongles. It turns out that there is also an R820T2 tuner chip available, but it does not seem to be used in any RTL-SDR dongles that...
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SDR Touch Updated to Version 2.0
SDR Touch, the popular Android based software defined radio software for the RTL-SDR has been updated to version 2.0. This new version is a complete rewrite with many optimizations listed below. 100%...
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Two New SDR# Plugins Released: ShortWave Info and DCS Decoder
Recently two new SDR# plugins have just been released. The first is a plugin which shows the name and language of the shortwave station that is currently tuned in using data from short-wave.info. It...
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Hak5: Installing RTL-SDR on Linux
In this episode of Hak5, a popular YouTube technology channel, Shannon shows how to use the RTL-SDR on Debian Linux. She shows how to install the RTL-SDR drivers from scratch if using a distribution...
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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Receiving Meteor-M N2 LRPT Weather Satellite Images with an...
The Meteor-M N2 is a polar orbiting Russian weather satellite that was launched on July 8, 2014. Its main missions are weather forecasting, climate change monitoring, sea water monitoring/forecasting...
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Analyzing a Car Security Active RFID Token with a HackRF
Some car security systems from around 2001 – 2003 use an embedded RFID tag inside the car key as an added security measure against key copying. Using his HackRF, ChiefTinker was able to analyse and...
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Testing a FM Broadcast Bandstop Filter
Over on YouTube user Cameron Conover has been testing a simple FM broadcast bandstop filter with his HackRF. The same filter can just as easily be used with the RTL-SDR to remove broadcast FM...
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Monitoring Military Aircraft with an RTL-SDR Part 2
Last month we posted about monitoring and logging military ADS-B data on milaircomms.com. It turns out that there is another service at www.live-military-mode-s.eu that also does military ADS-B...
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Observing the 21cm Hydrogen Line with Linrad and an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user S53RM has uploaded a video showing his and S53MM’s observation of the 1420 MHz galactic hydrogen line with an RTL-SDR. Hydrogen atoms randomly emit photons at a wavelength of 21cm...
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New RTL-SDR ADS-B App for Android
Over on the Google Play store there is a new (released July 2014) RTL-SDR ADS-B Android app available for purchase called “ADS-B Receiver”. This app allows you to with the aid of an RTL-SDR and USB OTG...
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Using dump1090 in Windows
Dump1090 is a command line based ADS-B decoder for the RTL-SDR. It is considered by many to be the best ADS-B decoder for the RTL-SDR available at the moment. Dump1090 is most commonly used in Linux...
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